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Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Danton and Jean-Paul Marat in a portrait by Alfred Loudet, 1882 (Musée de la Révolution française) During the French Revolution (1789–1799), multiple differing political groups, clubs, organizations, and militias arose, which could often be further subdivided into rival factions. Every group had its own ideas about what the goals of the Revolution were and ...
In the United States, the French Revolution deeply polarised American politics, and this polarisation led to the creation of the First Party System. In 1793, as war broke out in Europe, the Democratic-Republican Party led by former American minister to France Thomas Jefferson favored revolutionary France and pointed to the 1778 treaty that was ...
The Society of the Friends of the Constitution [8] (French: Société des Amis de la Constitution), better known as Feuillants Club (French pronunciation: French: Club des Feuillants), was a political grouping that emerged during the French Revolution. [9] It came into existence on 16 July 1791. [9]
Other organizations included the French Central Revolutionary Committee and its successor, the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and the Blanquist section of the International Workingmen's Association or First International. On 4 October 1919, Alexandre Varenne founded the socialist daily La Montagne, Quotidien de la Démocratie Socialiste du ...
The Mountain (French: La Montagne) was a political group during the French Revolution.Its members, called the Montagnards (French: [mɔ̃taɲaʁ]), sat on the highest benches in the National Convention.
DiPadova, Theodore A. "The Girondins and the Question of Revolutionary Government", French Historical Studies (1976) 9#3 pp. 432–450 JSTOR 286230. Ellery, Eloise. Brissot De Warville: A Study in the History of the French Revolution (1915) excerpt and text search. François Furet and Mona Ozouf. eds. La Gironde et les Girondins. Paris ...
The National Convention (French: Convention nationale) was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly.
The Society of 1789 (French: Club de 1789), or the Patriotic Society of 1789 (French: Société patriotique de 1789), was a political club of the French Revolution inaugurated during a festive banquet held at Palais-Royal in May 13, 1790 [3] by more moderate elements of the Club Breton. [4]